By Regina Star
Feb 8, 2021
Federal safety officials are expected to announce the probable cause of the tragic January 2020 helicopter crash that killed NBA basketball legend
Kobe Bryant this week, Associated Press has learned.
The announcement, to be delivered on Tuesday (February 9), will come more than a year after Bryant passed away on January 26, 2020, along with eight other passengers aboard the copter, including his 13-year-old daughter,
Gianna Bryant, and the pilot, Ara Zobayan.
According to reports, the copter had been through foggy weather conditions from Orange County en route to a youth basketball game at Bryant’s Mamba Sports Academy in Ventura County when the S-76 helicopter plunged into the Calabasas hills, killing all nine aboard before being consumed by flames.